Where is Microsoft going with Silverlight? There is no ambiguity in Microsoft’s intentions to contend with AJAX and Adobe Flash in the RIA space; Friday's Silverlight 4 release includes me-too features such as enhanced video streaming capabilities aimed at internet broadcasters, ...Read More
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-18
RT @patrickmyles: Some interesting food for thought on Acceptance Testing from GOOSGaggle: http://bit.ly/aqYpsv #Using Fiddler to help develop cross domain capable JavaScript web applications by @leggetter: http://bit.ly/OgvD5 ...Read More
Evolution of Comet at Caplin
I have been blogging on CometDaily since before we started Platformability so thought I would take a look back and see if there was anything there that might be of interest to our Platformability audience. Early on ...Read More
The beauty of small tests
When tests are small, a test failure means just one thing – somewhere in these ten lines of code which are being tested, there is an error. Ok, sometimes this can mean that there is an error in the test script, ...Read More
HTML5 WebSocket Failure Rates
Some interesting information on WebSockets recently came to my attention. Greg Wilkins posted to the hybi mailing list about Websocket success rates and TLS extension which links to some original research done by Google employees here while ...Read More
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-11
Platformability's latest for all you UX people: "Duncan: On the Impossible Bloomberg Makeover" by @detyro himself: http://bit.ly/aYGCs4 #Happy Friday everyone! Latest from Platformability: Agile – Tests = Fragile by @andrewjdarnell, QA ...Read More
Agile – Tests = Fragile
The nature of agile projects, with lots of small releases mean that there are a lot of test runs to execute if you want to have any confidence in the code and the product. Ignoring this testing just ...Read More
Duncan: On The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover
Check out this great article from Dominique Leca over at UX Magazine: The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover It includes some concepts from IDEO who submitted a redesign proposal ...Read More
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-04
Ext Designer 1.0 WYSIWYG design tool for Ext ajax apps released - http://bit.ly/cVkVqF #Platformability latest from @martintyler: 3 Generations of RIA Trading. Our experience of RIA streaming architectures.: http://bit.ly/b48GPf ...Read More
Agile Software Development – One Size Doesn’t Fit All
As I mentioned in part I of this series, Adoption of Agile at Caplin, when we first started following an agile methodology (in our case Scrum) in February 2005 we were desperate to implement it successfully and wanted to adhere to ...Read More